Slosh, Slosh
This for sure is more than a drip, drip day. When the patio has water standing on it, we here on Stauffer Avenue are out of the drought.
Today is the ultimate challenge in the studio. How could I not make up some items for Megan and her three friends when they move into their first apartment sometime in May. The kitchen theme is succulents. Megan had been growing succulents her entire time in high school. When she worked at the Mustard Seed Nursery, she would save the petals that fell off of the succulents, take them home and start new plants in a dirt mixture that succulents like. Once the plants had a good start, she would sell them to classmates. Sweet.
This morning, we worked together to put extra bedding up on the shelves that Kevin put in for us in our one and only closet. Dennis’ arms are stronger than mine. The kitchen step stool with wide steps was used. Dennis got up on the second step, so I could hand quilts and such off to him while putting my shoulder against the back of his legs for a secure feeling. This transpired as Dennis really likes sleeping under the feather/poly filled comforter with the flannel duet encasing it. He still has the electric mattress pad set at the magic number of 3. Needless to say, Dennis needs the max of warmth while sleeping. Both of us appreciate the ease of dressing the bed each morning. A good flip and all is smooth and ready for the next night.
Today I deconstructed an oven mitt potholder. I needed to do that to emborder a succulent design and still allow the user to insert the hand in while using it as the potholder. As the potholder would not fit into a hoop, I used a stabilizer called Stable Stick. After the stabilizer is hooped, you use the sharp point of a scissor, score it and tear away, revealing a sticky surface to hold the area to be stitched on. Success. The fabric where the design would go, needed to be taut on the sticky surface for the tension of the design to stitch. You may wonder how I know this? I tried using pins to hold the fabric surface to a non stick product. With the fabric not large enough to hoop and tighten to be a taut surface. No go. Taut was needed for correct tension stitching. I wore myself out to the point it was time to surface to our main floor. For tomorrow, after removing the stabilizer, I have chosen the gray thread that is sitting on the sewing machine to use when I sew the bias tape binding back around the entire pot holder. Putting it back together might be as large of a challenge as embroidering it was. Time will tell.
With that I take my leave. ♥